All York County veterans—YORKVETs—and their families are invited to a celebration and breakfast at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at the York Expo Center, Memorial Hall West. Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. and the celebration will conclude with a salute to veterans at 11:11 a.m.

No one noticed it at first. The herbicide used to clear tracts of rainforest during the Vietnam War was given the name “Agent Orange” for the brightly colored stripes on the barrels. And while it did its job of killing vegetation, it also was doing something else in the DNA of men and women who served in the Armed Forces.